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2022.
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English
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"A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system--a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Regal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison. But while Marcus...
2) Black buck
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English
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"For fans of Sorry to Bother You and Wolf of Wall Street: a crackling, satirical debut novel about a young black man who accidentally impresses a CEO while serving his Starbucks order, catapulting him into the opportunity of a lifetime-a shot at stardom as the lone black salesman at an eccentric, mysterious, and wildly successful startup where, he will soon learn, nothing is as it seems"--
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English
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"Daniel Sullivan, a young American professor reeling from a failed marriage and a brutal custody battle, is on holiday in Ireland when he falls in love with Claudette, a world famous sexual icon and actress who fled fame for a reclusive life in a rural village. Together, they make an idyllic life in the country, raising two more children in blissful seclusion until a secret from Daniel's past threatens to destroy their meticulously constructed and...
4) Speak
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"From National Book Award finalist and "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune), Charles Baxter, a timely and unsettling new novel about the people drawn to and unmoored by a local activist group more dangerous than it appears. Brettigan's son, a once promising actor, has gone missing, and despite the fact that his wife, Alma, knows he left on purpose, she has been searching for him all over the city. She checks the usual places, churches,...
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Series
Wifey volume 7
Publisher
Dafina
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Kira raked in a fortune from her last high-end scheme. And she snagged South Beach, Florida’s biggest kingpin, Dylan, as her sexy, very protective fiancé. But more game means nothing but more problems when one of the bodies dropped along the way is a judge friend of Kira’s influential father. And when he has Dylan arrested—and threatens to expose the lethal money behind Kira’s empire—she may have to silence her snitching pops for good ....
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English
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"Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city’s sewer system. This is the devastating premise of this scorching novel, a masterpiece that Richard Wright was unable to publish in his lifetime. Written between his landmark books Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945), at the...
8) Talon of God
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Publisher
HarperVoyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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The acclaimed actor makes his fiction debut with this enthralling urban fantasy in which a holy warrior must convince a doctor with no faith to help stop a powerful demon and his minions from succeeding in creating hell on eartha thrilling adventure of science and faith, good and evil, damnation and salvation.Imagine that everyone you have ever known or loved was forced against their will into a state of demonic possession and spiritual slavery. Imagine...
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